April 4, 2026

Making Friends with Germany, 1925-1963 with Dr. Elana Passman

Making Friends with Germany, 1925-1963 with Dr. Elana Passman
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Dr. Elana Passman talks about the French and Germans who tried to bring peace to both countries in 1925-1963.

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Transcript

Today's special episode is an interview with Dr. Elana Passman. Passman is a Professor of History and Clerk of the Faculty at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. She is a graduate of Yale University and received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Modern European History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was a Fellow of the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies and the recipient of a Bourse Chateaubriand from the French Embassy.  Her book, The French-German Dynamic in an Age of Conflict, 1925-1963: Enemies, Collaborators, Friends (Routledge, 2025) illuminates how entangled were the histories of 1920s rapprochement, Nazi-Era collaborationism, and postwar reconciliation. Dr. Passman's current book project, a microhistory of a German-Jewish family from the early 19th century to the 1960s, is rooted in her family papers.  Today we are discussing her book, which is all about Franco-German reconcilliation between 1925-1963.

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Dr. Elana Passman Profile Photo

Dr. Elana Passman is a Professor of History and Clerk of the Faculty at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana. She is a graduate of Yale University and received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Modern European History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was a Fellow of the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies and the recipient of a Bourse Chateaubriand from the French Embassy. Her book, The French-German Dynamic in an Age of Conflict, 1925-1963: Enemies, Collaborators, Friends (Routledge, 2025) illuminates how entangled were the histories of 1920s rapprochement, Nazi-Era collaborationism, and postwar reconciliation. Dr. Passman's current book project, a microhistory of a German-Jewish family from the early 19th century to the 1960s, is rooted in her family papers.

script forthcoming